How to adjust food rations for your dog

how to create a good meal plan

The steps necessary to feed your dog properlyThey do involve certain calculations, but nevertheless, it is really worth all this effort.

Make a good eating plan

Adjusting the rations of what your dog eats

For dog owners who already know how should be the plan that they should follow daily to offer your dogs a healthy diet, based mainly on their caloric needs and that day by day they are accurately measuring each portion of food that they serve their pets, today we will show you one more step, which is of utmost importance to make sure that your dog actually you are eating the right amount of food daily.

This is the last step to correctly establish the food portions for your dog and in addition to all the calculations and measurements that we commonly recommend, there is also something else to do, which is based primarily on observe your pet's body complexion for at least three or four weeks, in order to see how they respond to the new amounts of food you serve them.

If you can see that your dog burns calories every day, you can try to calculate how much you lose in order to use that estimate to work out a good eating plan.

Adjusting the rations of what your dog eats

Adjusting the rations of what your dog eats

However, there are different elements which can make you achieve a proper estimate to help you make the eating regimen simpler, since only by observing your pet's body, you can make adjustments to his eating plan if you think it is necessary, to keep your pet healthy. However, if you notice that your pet looks like they have gained or lost body fat, this is an indication that you actually need to make adjustments.

There are different elements, which can alter the eating plan that you originally calculated for your pet and these are:

La metabolic rate of your pet is slightly different than usual

what each dog eats is important

Although those dogs that are usually of similar sizes tend to be quite similar when it comes to their metabolism, several of them may have a metabolic rate that is slightly above or below normal. In this type of case, the daily caloric needs of the dog and consequently also its daily food needs, must be kept adjusted according to the way in which its body is currently reacting to what it consumes.

El Daily exercise it is different from what was planned

It is quite common for dog owners to plan a certain amount of time and exercises that they will do with their pet, but nevertheless, life usually gets in the way causing the dog don't exercise as much as planned initially.

If you find yourself in this situation, you need to go back and calculate again how many calories will your dog burn when exercising daily and in the same way you will have to recalculate the portion of food based on the exercise you do. The same applies, if the opposite is the case and your pet tends to exercise more than you had planned.

Sweets sabotage strategy

Maybe this is possibly the most frequent reason why dog ​​owners should be more aware as for the portions of food that serve them, since they may end up having weight problems.

This is because the treats are high in calories, which does not allow you to accurately calculate food portions; causing your pet to have a rapid increase in body fat and even become overweight. That is why it is advisable to have a bag with a calculated amount of treats, since in this way you will be able to control your pet's calorie consumption.


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